Join Branch Librarian Aimee Sixt for a discussion of Book and Dagger by Elyse Graham.

Book and Dagger tells the riveting, untold story of how literature professors, librarians, and historians were recruited into the newly formed Office of Strategic Services during WWII and became unlikely spies who helped turn the tide of the war. Drawing on personal histories, diaries, and declassified OSS files, Elyse Graham follows a small, interconnected group of humanities scholars who conducted undercover operations, hunted enemy agents, and gathered vital intelligence across Europe. Their efforts not only helped defeat the Nazis but also laid the foundations of modern American intelligence and reshaped higher education after the war, revealing the extraordinary power of the humanities to change the course of history. 400 pages